On 15 Jul 2010, at 23:59, Tim McNamara <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16 July 2010 10:50, Daniel Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > Under non-sugar environments (e.g. GNOME), myself and Paul are in > agreement that in order to change brightness and volume, you should > press e.g. Fn+F9 (to decrease brightness). > > This matches behaviour of "normal" laptops, including the Dell that > I'm writing on. Linux already has mechanisms (once through hal, now > through udev) so that when I press Fn+F8 on my Dell, X receives the > "volume down" key press (instead of the Fn+F8 key press), matching > what is printed on the keyboard. > > > This convention appears to be changing. My very recent HP notebook requires > th Fn button to be pushed to reach the function keys. Everything is reversed. +1 on Tim's observation, all three Apple laptops I've owned have brightness/volume/exposé/dashboard/etc mapped by default to a single key press, if you want an Fn key you need to hold the Fn button down. There is a system preference to toggle this behaviour, but the majority of Mac applications avoid the use of function keys (same as most Sugar Activities do). Regards, --Gary > While I don't have the empirical evidence to support a claim that users > prefer to have quick access to volume & brightness, I think this could be an > argument to say that whatever the path of least resistance (in terms of > developer cycles) is fine. > > Tim > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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